The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-06-03

and to some compositors the word does
not seem to be a familiar one, "Tow-
| line insurance" and routine insur-
ance" make their appearance occa-
sionally on the proof-sheets. A
western congressman of some promi-
nence, whose name, we believe, goes
into the small capital or independent
collection of names in the newspaper
reports of congressional votes, wrote
an article for his local paper in which
narrowing sentence was rounded off
with the words: The dwarfed and
haggard children of the poor." !" The
compositor put it into shape thus:
''The dooryard and hog-fed children
of the poor" A misplaced punctua-
tion mark sometimes alters the sense
of printed sentence. A New Haven
paper recently found it necessary to
explain at some length why comma
went astray. The sentence was print
ed as follows "However much the
postmaster general may disappointthe
multitude of place-seeker, she will
command the approval of the general
public. OF course the words ''place-
seeker, she,n should have read place
seekers, he, the mistake arising from
the transposition of the comma and
letter IS, but the editor felt it incum-
bent upon him to explain, as sharp
eyed reader had written to inquire If
that paper considered Postmaster GEN
eral Villas an old woman.
In transmitting over the wires to a
newspaper long account OF the ar
rest in Montreal of counterfeiter, a
| telegraph operator encountered in the
correspondents written story the
slang phrase, SHOWING the queer"
His education had been neglected, no
doubt, in the direction of slang, or the
manuscript was very bad, for the OPP
orator at the New York end of the
wire heard ticked out on his instru-
ment that the prisoner had been ar
rested for shaving the queenW A
dramatic critic, whose penmanship
was wretched, wrote criticism for
the comic opera "Girofie-G -Giroha. and
! was considerably agitated on finding
in the proof at stated intervals, 'Snif-
| iie-Snaffie In long article headed
"Men of Letters giving an account
of compositors and their peculiarities,
Boston journal remarked: "Bad
manuscript is fruitful source of an
noyance and loss to the compositor,
and is responsible for as many errors
as anything else. Still, the composit-
or can occasionally exhibit striking
instance of lnisdirected genius even
with printed copy or faultless manu-
script. II he should happen to be in
conversation, not even the fact of
! printed copy can save him from intro
| ducing it In the type. One of the sin
telligent compositors' of daily, more
/ intent on a conversation than his duty,
| produced the astounding police item
/ that Samuel Jones was arrested for
| being drunk at the corner of Shawmut
avenue and Constantinople;' another,
eagerly discussing the drama, made
sshepherdless sheep appear es.EE Is. g sSlhsa k
| speare's sheep. Sheer ignorance,
though that is not common fault,
made one fresh from the rural dis
| tricts speak of Prince Beeswax and
his policy instead of Prince Bismarck.
| When time presses type is sometimes
placed in the form before the proof
reader has a chance to read it. Tin.
der such circumstances dramatic
critic of this city was made to say
that Mary Anderson cast looks Of
love at her Ten dresses when looks of
love and tenderness was intended. =
In an issue of Boston daily paper
eulogy of deceased merchant by
distinguished preacher conveyed to
the public the fact that ssthe deceased
was man Of sterling Christian char
acter and OF business integrity, oats
SIC to 97c for May; 90c to 96c for
June. beyond suspicion. through a
misplaced line of type. NeW York
Times.